Border lockdown for unticketed brief

Uncategorized    Monday, March 29, 2021

Unlicensed in Sydney … Brief expunged from the jam roll while licensed in Victoria and Queensland … Trying to get around bar exams failures … Main place of business was NSW … Tottering raft of constitutional arguments … Janek Drevikovsky reports

 

Letter from Blighty

Uncategorized    Monday, March 29, 2021

Tories meddling with the wheels of justice … Johnson government wants to bring the Supreme Court to heel … Too much “judicial activism” … Clamping down on judicial reviews of administrative decisions … Increased statutory senility … Lord Chancellor has strange thoughts about linchpins … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

 

Law Council decapitated

Uncategorized    Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Yarraside’s “anti-woke” uprising … Blandification of Vic’s Bar ‘n’ Grill … Difficulty stumping-up $110 per brief to fund lawyers’ voice to the nation … “Complicated issue” … More responses to come … Outcry over push to return to court … Peach Melba reports  COMMENT: Memories are very short !!!!

The LCA did have individual membership in the early 1980's.

It was the Vic Bar that eventually did not support it

 

Free the people from their chains

Uncategorized    Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Concerned lawyers in support of Craig Kelly and hydroxychloroquine … Lockdown class action in the pipeline, somewhere … Bill of Rights (1688) where are you? … False medical advice … State of non-emergency and other disturbances … Burn your masks 

 

Out of the Blue

Uncategorized    Thursday, March 18, 2021

Victorian Supreme Court judge’s silken advice in a property dispute was negligent … Damages of $1.185 million to be shared with law shop … Inadequate information to support advice … Hopefully, insurers will save the judge’s bacon … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

 

Portergate

Uncategorized    Thursday, March 11, 2021

Lawyers have to be fit and proper – why not the attorney general? … Schmo Morrison’s crack legal team on hand … Silk emails the PM to set him straight … Where to now with Porter? … Polly Peck in Canberra 

 


Happy families

Uncategorized    Thursday, March 11, 2021

Judges bailing out of the family courts at an alarming rate … Delirium over merged courts fiasco … No sign of a functioning attorney general … Two Wigs Willy running the shop from Hobart … Depleated appeal division … New FCFCA bureau de spank for judges … Still no certainty for an ancient “black hole” case